The earnest message was delivered in an opulent setting. First, the customary cocktails and hors d\’oeuvres were served in the Sheinbaum\’s plush backyard, where a clover-shaped pool, statues and sculptures seemed fixed into the landscape of the Brentwood Hills.
At the center of the controversy raging about the possible end of Ethiopian immigration stand 8,700 relatively helpless Ethiopian Jews who want to come to Israel and an establishment led astray by its interior minister\’s misguided policy.
Industry observers say more aggressive government policies, such as underwriting renewable energy initiatives and granting more land for power plants, are needed to bolster the development of alternative energy.
Early in \”A Jihad for Love,\” a new documentary directed by Parvez Sharma and produced by Sandi Simcha Dubowski, we meet Mazen, a 20-something Egyptian man who has fled Cairo for Paris to avoid the three-year prison sentence authorities want to impose on him because he is gay.
Not only are survivors alive in large numbers — estimated at 700,000 worldwide, with about 85,000 in the United States — but they are projected to be a part of Jewish society for another 10 to 15 years, and even longer for child survivors.
The lawsuit argues that any deal with Hezbollah must advance the effort to locate and free the missing Iranian Jews.
It turns out, see, that I am endangered: I am a non-Orthodox Jewish man engaged in Jewish life.
Parashat Chukat (Numbers 20:1-22:1) Who was Miriam? She is the only woman in the Torah who bears the title \”Neviah\” — prophetess. So who was she?
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